Principal investigator at Cinvestav-IPN (Molecular Biomedicine Department) (since1995).

Research interest: Alzheimer´s Disease and genome susceptibility

Curricular summary:

He was born in the City of Mexico City, in 1960.

He obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology at Cinvestav in l990.

He was a Postdoctoral fellow at Washington University School Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, from 1990 to 1995.

He has published 72 scientific articles in specialized international magazines, with more than 3500 citations to his works.

Administrative Positions:

Academic Coordinator of the Departments of Cellular Biology and Molecular Biomedicine

General Coordinator of Bibliographical and Experimental Services at Cinvestav

President of the Institutional Committee for the Use and Carefulness of Animal for research at Cinvestav

Director of the area of Basic Research at CONACyT

Technical Secretary, SEP-CONACYT Committee.

Executive Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Commission for Biosafty of Genetically Modified Organisms (CIBIOGEM).

Planning Secretary, CINVESTAV-IPN